Text-Only Mode

Extension Delisted

This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

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Status
Minor Policy Violation Removed Long Ago No Privacy Policy
Description from extension meta

Allows opening and viewing of pages in text-only mode, with no images and/or other multimedia

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Text-Only Mode
Description from store

(NOTE: After installing and/or updating this extension, you may need to restart Chrome or reload open tabs in order for it to function properly.)

This extension allows viewing pages in "Text-Only" mode - preserving layout and colors, but removing all images and multimedia from the page.

Also available is the option to right-click on a link and open it in Text-Only Mode, preventing images from ever appearing on the page.

To activate (or deactivate) Text-Only Mode for an already-open page, just click the Text-Only Mode icon next to the OmniBar.

Please send any bug reports or feature requests to us at http://www.spetnik.com/a/company-contact

Latest reviews

Cary Taylor 2020-07-16

Doesn't work, at all. Useless.

Rick Lupton 2018-11-28

did not work, I still got all the ads and other 'fancy' formating on the page. I ONLY WANT THE TEXT!

Max P 2018-10-02

blue color on in icon -- annoying

Mark Reimer 2018-07-23

Not working

Anonymous 2018-07-22

Followed the instructions of toggling it on and refreshing the page and it didn't work at all. Nothing changed and I had no other extensions enabled that would have interfered with it. Images, video and flash all still appeared on every page. All it did was center everything.

Angela Yee 2018-07-14

Perfect for what I needed it for. I needed to search for how to repel insects, but have extreme phobia with seeing insect pictures. The only thing that can make this better, is an option to have the text-only enabled by default for new tabs. I made the mistake of opening one of the insect-related search results on a new tab, and the page had a giant picture of a mosquito close up. :( But clicking the link normally works fine.

Atchuthan T U 2018-02-27

Not working properly

Bill Shroyer 2018-01-21

Does what it says it will do, but leaves all the frames and ad boxes and stuff in-tact. Was expecting it to be more of a "text browser" type of experience, without frames and such. But it is good if all you want is to remove pictures.

Barbazzo Fernap 2017-11-17

Another misnomer. Let's actually see text only! Chrome needs something at least as good as Textise.

フアン ドゥックトアン 2017-06-07

Should help fuction alway use tex-only mode for list of site

Anonymous 2017-02-03

it is okay for someone else but not for me because i want a tool just like google webcache but it is not work for me. i want a tool for complete text browsing

ahmed fnitou 2017-01-02

cool it does what i want

Burton Rothberg 2016-08-02

Works as advertised.

Mike Alleman 2016-07-16

Wow, that was so useless. Loads images first, then removes them. seems to do OK with flash

steglitz 2016-05-26

It deleted photos, but it also messed with the CSS making pages display poorly. It also changed the color of the page text, which, with some backgrounds, made the text look like it too had been removed. Deleted immediately.

Thomas Mwangi 2016-03-18

The best of it's kind! Great job coding this.

Ahmet Refik ÖZBEK 2016-01-28

Sayfa açılış hızını çok fazla etkilemese de kotalı internet kullanıcılarını sevindirecek kadar veri tasarrufu sağlıyor. Ortalama 5 kat daha az veri kullanıyor.

Daniel Lemon 2015-10-21

I wish I could set a shortcut key for toggling images off and on. That seems like basic functionality to me.

Lingga Ismail 2015-10-15

not bad lah

ivan @ 2015-08-27

works great!

Công dân toàn cầu 2015-08-03

Cool! But how to make it enable at all the page?

Anonymous 2015-05-20

I'd love to see an option to remove text and background colors and revert to standard fonts with a max font size. If these setting were remembered by site that would really ice the cake.

Eka Y. Saputra 2014-12-26

It would be perfect if while hiding images, we can still see the alt tag. However, it already deserves five star.

Karl Chan 2014-05-19

Just need a shortcut key for this extension and i will be perfect. Light weight, work as it say, highly recommended for office guys~ ^3^

Rubikant 2014-03-13

I preferred this over the other Text Mode extension because unlike that one, this one can be set on or off on a tab-by-tab basis (the other is all-or-nothing). Its very useful on my low-powered netbook for browsing some sites that bog it down with lots of animations. However on rare occasion a few random images will show up anyway, and sometimes go away when I refresh the page, for no apparent reason.

Dan Gardner 2013-10-27

I like this extension as it saves space on sites by eliminating pictures etc from loading. It does away with placeholders. Now, for improvement, it would be nice if each tab did not default to text only mode OFF. Rather, it would be nice if the status of new tabs were set based on the status of the tab that was most recently active. Thank you for the extension.

Statistics

Installs
10,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
-
Rating
3.7 (47 votes)
Last update
2013-10-01
Version 1.0.1
Languages
en